Love Decoration Cookie

It is warm again during the day but freezing at night with a cold wind. Brrrrr...

This is another Valentine's day recipe ;)
I decorated a heart shaped cookie with a 3D LOVE message.





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Love Decoration Cookie

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 1hr+35min (15min preparation, 20min cooking, 1hr ready in)
Number of servings: 3-4 10 cm (4 inches) heart shaped cookies

Ingredients:
60g (2.1oz.) butter (softened)
30g (1oz.) sugar
1 egg yolk
A
* 95g (3.3oz.) all-purpose flour
* 2 tbsp. cocoa powder
pink chocolate pen or pink colored icing
sprinkles of your choice

Directions:
1. Beat butter and sugar until creamy, add egg yolk and mix well.




2. Sift A in 1. and mix well.





3. Press and shape dough into one and wrap in plastic wrap. Refrigerate the dough for at least 1 hour to chill.



4. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 0.5 cm (0.2 inch) thickness. Cut with a 4-inch heart-shaped cookie cutter dipped in flour. Also cut out alphabets (LOVE) freehand or with alphabet cookie cutters. Place on a greased cookie sheet about an inch apart.

5. Bake at 350F (180C) for 15-20 minutes. Cool the cookies on the sheet and attach sprinkles with chocolate pen or colored icing.


My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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I had sake with my friend tonight. I drank it after a long time, so I was dizzy for few hours... but I am okay now! Wow it is 2AM already!!! I think I should go to bed.

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Decorated Chocolate Bar

Hello! It is nice and sunny today again, but we have flu warning nationwide! How scary...

Here is another chocolate recipe! I posted the image before so someone might remember it ;)

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Decorated Chocolate Bar

Difficulty: Really Easy
Time: depend on you
Number of servings: 1

Ingredients:
1 chocolate bar of your choice
sprinkles of your choice
chocolate pen or chocolate to attach sprinkles

Directions:
1. Attach the sprinkles on to the chocolate bar using melted chocolate pen or chocolate.

My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Tomorrow, I am going to have nabe for lunch with my co-worker. Kind of looking forward to it from now ;)

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Chocolate Muffins

Hi! It snowed a little on Saturday. Probably the first snow of the season. The high was 50F(10C) and it was cold!!! Oops, jo might laugh at me. Her place was at 15F(-9C)...

This is the same chocolate muffins as last time in a different style ;)



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Chocolate Muffins

Difficulty: Very Easy
Time: 40min (15min preparation, 25min cooking)
Number of servings: 6 medium (2.4inches/6cm) aluminum cups

Ingredients:
A
* 100g (3.5oz.) all-purpose flour
* 20g (0.7oz.) cocoa powder
* 1 tsp. baking powder
* a pinch of salt
60g (2.1oz.) butter (softened)
60g (2.1oz.) sugar
1 egg
70cc milk
few drops of vanilla extract
25g (0.8oz.) chopped walnut
40g (1.4oz.) chopped chocolate bar

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). In a large bowl, whisk A together and set aside.




2. In another bowl, beat butter and sugar until creamy, add egg, milk and vanilla extract in sequence, mixing well after each addition.


3. Add the dry ingredients (1.) in the liquid ingredients (2.) a small amount at a time, and with a rubber spatula, gently stir to blend. (Do not overmix!) Then stir in the chopped walnut and chocolate bar.

4. Spoon the mixture into aluminum cups. Bake for 20-25 minutes.




My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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LOVE Message Chocolate Chunk Muffins

The sun finally came out from the rainy sky. This weekend is going to be sunny, good :)

Here is another Valentine's Day recipe!
I posted about these muffins last year (if you could find), but without recipe, so I will translate it now.



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LOVE Message Chocolate Chunk Muffins

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 1hr (15min preparation, 25min cooking, 20min decoration)
Number of servings: 4 medium (2.4inches/6cm) muffin cups

Ingredients:
A
* 100g (3.5oz.) all-purpose flour
* 20g (0.7oz.) cocoa powder
* 1 tsp. baking powder
* a pinch of salt
60g (2.1oz.) butter (softened)
60g (2.1oz.) sugar
1 egg
70cc milk
few drops of vanilla extract
25g (0.8oz.) chopped walnut
40g (1.4oz.) chopped chocolate bar

Decoration
chocolate bars
mini heart chocolates or heart candies
chocolate pen
ganache or chocolate to attach the message bars

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). In a large bowl, whisk A together and set aside.




2. In another bowl, beat butter and sugar until creamy, add egg, milk and vanilla extract in sequence, mixing well after each addition.


3. Add the dry ingredients (1.) in the liquid ingredients (2.) a small amount at a time, and with a rubber spatula, gently stir to blend. (Do not overmix!) Then stir in the chopped walnut and chocolate bar.

4. Spoon the mixture into muffin cups. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Cool the muffins.




5. Prepare the LOVE message chocolate bars.




6. Attach the message chocolate bars on to the muffins.




My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Action Painting Cookies

Do you know Jackson Pollock?
He is an American abstract expressionist painter.

Last weekend, I baked some cookies and used his "drip" technique to decorate them! Don't you think this is easy and COOL!?



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Action Painting Cookies

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 2.5hrs (15min preparation, 15min cooking, 2hrs ready in)
Number of servings: 20 cookies

Ingredients:
60g (2.1oz.) butter (softened)
30g (1oz.) sugar
1 egg yolk
A
* 95g (3.3oz.) all-purpose flour
* 2 tbsp. cocoa powder
* a pinch of baking powder
chocolate pens or colored icing of your choice

Directions:
1. Beat butter and sugar until creamy, add egg yolk and mix well.




2. Sift A in 1. and mix well.





3. Press and shape dough into a log (1.5 inches in diameter) and wrap in plastic wrap or waxed paper. Refrigerate dough for at least 2 hours until very firm.


4. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). Cut in 0.25-inch slices and place on a greased cookie sheet about an inch apart.



5. Bake at 350F (180C) for 12-15 minutes. Cool the cookies on the sheet and action-paint them with chocolate pens or colored icing of your choice.


6. These are the chocolate pens I used.





My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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It is going to rain this afternoon (after a long time) and temperatures are predicted to turn much colder in the weekend!
Let us keep warm!!!

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